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Main Authors: Taylor, Quinn, Starkman, Glenn D., Hinczewski, Michael, Mihaylov, Deyan P., Silk, Joseph, Pacheco, Jose de Freitas
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04054
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author Taylor, Quinn
Starkman, Glenn D.
Hinczewski, Michael
Mihaylov, Deyan P.
Silk, Joseph
Pacheco, Jose de Freitas
author_facet Taylor, Quinn
Starkman, Glenn D.
Hinczewski, Michael
Mihaylov, Deyan P.
Silk, Joseph
Pacheco, Jose de Freitas
contents The Hawking process results in a monotonic decrease of the black hole mass, but a biased random walk of the black hole angular momentum. We demonstrate that this stochastic process leads to a significant fraction of primordial black holes becoming extremal Kerr black holes (EKBHs) of one to a few Planck masses regardless of their initial mass. For these EKBHs, the probability of ever absorbing a photon or other particle from the cosmic environment is small, even in the cores of galaxies. Assuming that EKBHs are stable, they behave as cold dark matter, and can comprise all of the dark matter if they are formed with the correct initial abundance.
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spellingShingle Extremal Kerr Black Hole Dark Matter from Hawking Evaporation
Taylor, Quinn
Starkman, Glenn D.
Hinczewski, Michael
Mihaylov, Deyan P.
Silk, Joseph
Pacheco, Jose de Freitas
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
The Hawking process results in a monotonic decrease of the black hole mass, but a biased random walk of the black hole angular momentum. We demonstrate that this stochastic process leads to a significant fraction of primordial black holes becoming extremal Kerr black holes (EKBHs) of one to a few Planck masses regardless of their initial mass. For these EKBHs, the probability of ever absorbing a photon or other particle from the cosmic environment is small, even in the cores of galaxies. Assuming that EKBHs are stable, they behave as cold dark matter, and can comprise all of the dark matter if they are formed with the correct initial abundance.
title Extremal Kerr Black Hole Dark Matter from Hawking Evaporation
topic General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04054